Episode 136
Aaron and Brent highlight the music of two different singer/songwriters: one from Easton, Maryland and the oher from the Caribbean island of Barbados.
Gaining notoriety after a video of a visibly-moved Pharrell Williams listening to her song “Alaska” went viral, Aaron spotlights three songs from Maggie Rogers.
With a career that includes being signed by Jay-Z, acting roles in films like Ocean’s 8, and the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show, Brent looks at three songs from Rihanna.
This Week’s Playlist
- Unfaithful – Rihanna – A Girl Like Me (2006)
- Want Want – Maggie Rogers – Surrender (2022)
- Stay – Rihanna (feat. Mikky Ekko) – Unapologetic (2012)
- Overdrive – Maggie Rogers – Surrender (2022)
- FourFiveSeconds – Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds Single (2015)
- Anywhere With You – Maggie Rogers – Surrender (2022)
Show Notes
(0:54) How much Spotify paid me for 4 million streams vs Apple Music (BIG DIFFERENCE 🤯) – YouTube
(09:05) 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Rihanna – Vogue
(14:27) Rihanna Getting In Touch With Her Rock Side For Next LP – MTV
(15:21) The Stargate Writing & Production Team – SoundOnSound
(24:24) Masterclass Pharrell Williams Maggie Rogers – YouTube
(29:21) Maggie Rogers Notes on Want Want – Instagram
(40:24) Thirty Seconds To Mars – Stay (Rihanna) in the Live Lounge – YouTube
(40:56) Stay – Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko (Boyce Avenue ft. Mandy Lee of MisterWives cover) on Spotify & Apple – YouTube
(44:37) Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling – NY Times
(49:18) Maggie Rogers shatters all expectations on her sophomore album ‘Surrender’ – Insider
(52:06) Maggie Rogers – Surrender (Official Trailer) – YouTube
(54:01) Paul McCartney on writing with Kanye West – NME
(56:35) James Bay – FourFiveSeconds in the Live Lounge – YouTube
(56:42) Dermot Kennedy Cover’s Taylor Swift Style and Rihanna Four Five Seconds – YouTube
(57:50) Paul McCartney Solves a Big Mystery About ‘FourFiveSeconds’ – Fuse
(59:40) Kanye West Got Wilson Phillips to Sing Backup Vocals on “FourFiveSeconds” – Pitchfork
(01:03:45) Rihanna & Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds – Live 10/15/2016 – YouTube
(01:06:01) Maggie Rogers – Bandcamp
(01:07:59) Maggie Rogers on her and Phoebe Bridgers’ cover of ‘Iris’: “It was all this weird, wild inside joke” – NME
Other Links
Band Websites
Listen to the Playlist
Videos Mentioned
Bands Mentioned
- Rihanna
- Maggie Rogers
- Jay-Z
- Pharrell Williams
- Kanye West
- Paul McCartney
- The Beatles
- Mikky Ekko
- Bruce Hornsby
- MEREX
- Frightened Rabbit
- Dermot Kennedy
- Taylor Swift
- Mandy Lee
- Boyce Avenue
- L.Dre
- Thirty Seconds to Mars
- A$AP Rocky
- Wilson Phillips
